Dear List Members,
Below please find FMO Tips, and references to new online publications,
journal/newsletter issues, events & opportunities, and web sites.
**Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers.
Cut and paste each line of the URL, if this happens.**
1. FMO Tips (http://www.forcedmigration.org):
- New browse page available in FMO for "Country Information Resources."
Visit http://www.forcedmigration.org/browse/thematic/countryinfo.htm.
- Two new collections are now available in the FMO Digital Library at
http://fmo.qeh.ox.ac.uk/Default/Client.asp?skin=Oxford&enter=true&publicatio
n=Oxford. One is from the Czech Helsinki Committee, whose collection
currently includes full-text annual reports on the human rights situation in
the OSCE region, produced by the International Helsinki Federation for Human
Rights; reports are available from 1989 to 2002. The second collection is
from the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American
University in Cairo; this collection features theses and conference papers
which focus primarily on Palestinian refugees. To search these collections,
simply tick/untick the relevant boxes and type in your search term.
- See more What's New at http://www.forcedmigration.org/whatsnew/.
2. New or Updated Web-Based Resources
**Online Publications**
European asylum systems: legal and social conditions for asylum seekers and
refugees in Western Europe - http://www.ecre.org/conditions/index.shtml
- Updated 2003 chapters for France, Ireland and Switzerland now available.
Global Overview of Internal Displacement - http://www.idpproject.org
- Updated 2002 overview from the Global IDP Project.
Linguistic identification in the determination of nationality: A preliminary
report, by Diana Eades et al (Feb. 2003) -
http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~hfraser/forensic/LingID.pdf
Special Source Issue: Women and Migration (March 2003) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/index.cfm
- Includes articles by Deborah Anker and Bela Hovy.
Taking Refugees for a Ride? The politics of refugee return to Afghanistan, b
y David Turton & Peter Marsden (Dec. 2002) -
http://www.areu.org.pk/publications/refugees.pdf
Update of the Profile on Internal Displacement in the Russian Federation
(March 2003) -
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Russian+Federati
on
War in Iraq: is UNHCR up to it? by Gil Loescher & Arthur Helton (Feb.
2003) - http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-956.jsp
Women asylum seekers in the UK: a gender perspective - some facts and
figures (Feb. 3003) -
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/Publications/RWRP%20Women%20asylum%20seekers%20F
eb%2003.doc
- "Research on women's experiences in the UK asylum system."
**Journals/Newsletters**
Global Review of Ethnopolitics, vol. 2, no. 2 (Jan. 2003) -
http://www.ethnopolitics.org (full-text)
Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3 (Oct. 2002) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refqtl/hdb/Volume_21/Issue_03/ (contents; full-text
available with subscription)
- This issue reproduces the proceedings of the 7th Annual Humanitarian
Conference organized by Webster University, Geneva; the conference focused
on humanitarian values.
Resettlement News, no. 4 (Jan. 2003) - http://www.displacement.net/news4.htm
(full-text)
- Focus is on development-induced resettlement.
**Events & Opportunities**
Trafficking in Persons Conference, Human Rights Law Centre, University of
Nottingham 27-28 June 2003 -
http://www.nott.ac.uk/law/hrlc/hrlc_trafficking.htm
**Web Sites**
Gallery of Prominent Refugees - http://www.unhcr.ch
- Access from UNHCR home page; requires Flash.
Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict -
http://www.ifhv.de
- "The objective of the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed
Conflict is to intensify academic research and instruction in the fields of
armed conflict."
International Women's Day Web Site -
http://www.un.org/events/women/iwd/2003/
Mission with Regional Function (MRF) for Central Europe in Vienna of the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) -
http://www.iomvienna.at/dynasite.php
- "Covers Austria and the (IOM defined) region of Central Europe (Bulgaria,
Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia"; in German and
English.
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the
Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies
Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the
views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or
re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts
should include attribution to the original sources.
|